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PUBLIC LAW 90-51-JULY 7, 1967

[81 STAT.

Public Law 90-51 July 7, 1967 [H. R. 8265]

Tobacco. Acreage allotments and a c r e age-poundage quota s, transfer. 52 Stat. 3 1; 79 Stat. 66. 7 USC 1281, 1314c.

Conditions.

Acreage history and marketing quota, transfer.

New farm allotment, restriction.

Allotment adjustment.

AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adj^istment Act of 1938, as amended, to authorize the transfer of tobacco acreage allotments and acreage-poundage quotas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding the following new section: "SEC. 318. (a) Notwithstanding any other f)rovision of law, the Secretary, if he determines that it will not impair the effective operation of the tobacco marketing quota or price support programs, (1) may permit the owner and operator of any farm for which a Firecured, dark air-cured, or Virginia sun-cured tobacco acreage allotment or acreage-poundage quota is established under this Act to sell or lease all or any part or the right to all or any part of such allotment or quota to any other owner or operator of a farm for transfer to such farm; and (2) may permit the owner of a farm to transfer all or any part of such allotment or quota to any other farm owned or controlled by him. " (b) Transfers under this section shall be subject to the following conditions: (1) no allotment or quota shall be transferred to a farm in another county; (2) no transfer of an allotment or quota from a farm subject to a mortgage or other lien shall be permitted unless the transfer is agreed to by the lienholders; (3) no sale of a farm allotment or quota from a farm shall be permitted if any sale of allotment or quota to the same farm has been made within the three immediately preceding crop years; and (4) no transfer of allotment or quota shall be effective until a record thereof is filed with the county committee of the county to which such transfer is made and such committee determines that the transfer complies with the provisions of this section. "(c) The transfer of an allotment or quota under this section shall have the effect of transferring also the acreage history and marketing quota attributable to such allotment or quota and if the transfer is made prior to the determination of the allotment or quota for any year the transfer shall include the right of the owner or operator to have an allotment or quota determined for the farm for such year: Provided, That in the case of a transfer by lease the amount of the allotment or quota shall be considered for purposes of determining allotments or quotas after the expiration of the lease to have been planted on the farm from which such allotment is transferred. " (d) The land in the farm from which the entire tobacco allotment or quota has been transferred shall not be eligible for a new farm tobacco allotment or quota during the five years following the year in which such transfer is made. "(e) If the normal yield established by the county committee for the farm to which the allotment is transferred does not exceed the normal yield established by the county committee for the farm from which the allotment is transferred by more than 10 per centum, the transfer shall be approved acre for acre. If the normal yield for the farm to which the allotment is transferred exceeds the normal yield for the farm from which the allotment is transferred by more than 10 per centum, the county committee shall make a downward adjustment in the amount of the acreage allotment transferred by multiplying the normal yield established for the faiTii from which the allotment IS transferred by the acreage being transferred and dividing the result by the normal yield established for the farm to which the allotment is transferred.

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